Chapter 15 - THE MAN WHO WAS SUPPOSED TO BE DEAD Mateo traveled alone to an abandoned monastery outside Boston.
There, he found an old man waiting.
His father.
Alive.
For years, Mateo had believed his father died in an accident.
Now he learned the truth.
His father had disappeared voluntarily.
He had spent decades gathering evidence against Silas and The Architect.
"I couldn't come home," he said.
"Why?"
"Because they were watching you."
Mateo's anger erupted.
"You let me believe you were dead."
"I kept you alive."
"You abandoned me."
The old man's eyes filled with regret.
"I know."
But he handed Mateo a file.
Inside was the final piece.
The Architect was not a stranger.
It was a person inside the Valerius family.
Someone who had survived the fire.
Someone who had manipulated both Silas and Lorenzo.
Mateo returned to New York.
He showed Isabella the evidence.
She read the name.
Her face went white.
"No."
Adrian stared.
"Who?"
Isabella whispered:
"Katerina's brother."
Her uncle.
A man everyone believed had died years before.
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The Architect was alive.
And he had been watching Isabella all along.
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